Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
- Join us at Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) in our mission to help individuals with diabetes lead active, fulfilling lives. We’re focused on helping people manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decision
- This position will be responsible for helping the procurement category team to Identify, research, and evaluate suppliers that meet the organization's standards of price, quality, timing, and reliability of supply.
This is an onsite opportunity based out of Alameda, CA.
What You’ll Work On
- First line responder; pivots between strategy, operations and transactional sourcing.
- Sends out requests for quotes (RFQ) or request for proposals (RFP) to suppliers and follows up with suppliers as needed to ensure bids are submitted by deadlines.
- Reviews supplier quotes for accuracy and creates supplier comparison reports that include various factors such as price, performance, project costs, tooling cost, and other metrics that are needed to make key supplier decisions.
- Plans and schedules deliveries to optimize inventories in support of production schedules/business demands by working with forecasting data/teams, planning teams, category teams and shipping/receiving teams.
- Helps to resolve supply constraint issues and helps to find long terms solutions to mitigate constraint issues from occurring.
- Performs as purchasing subject matter expert for internal and external customers due to extensive knowledge of purchasing.
- Coordinates with other Buyers to help centralize information to help with dual sourcing allocations, timing of project ramp up and ramp down to help maximize project savings while balancing between inventory and supply continuity.
- Leads and executes assigned projects to assure all procurement activities are performed as required, including but not limited to ad hoc reporting, SOWs/RFI's/Ordering documents, etc., assisting with supplier selection, etc.
- Works with Quality teams to obtain supplier scorecards and obtain past supplier performance data to help with sourcing decisions and project risk management activities.
- Participates in Research and Development or project meetings, developing and implementing action plans to support requirements bringing new products expeditiously to market.
- Creates and maintains mutually beneficial long-term partnerships with suppliers to foster feedback and continuous improvement, usually being the single source of contact for the vendor.
- Helps with sourcing activities such as finding new suppliers and recommending new vendors.
- Provides coaching and mentoring to junior members of the purchasing team.
- Monitors supplier performance, communicates and takes action to maintain high levels of supplier performance.
- Maintains and updates supplier databases as required and generate reports to perform data analysis to proactively plan or resolve issues.
- Works with inventory management/warehouse management to resolve issues.
- Lead special projects as requested to reduce cost, increase efficiency, etc.
- May processes some or all of the following: rejected components/corrective action, returns, debit memos, etc
- Executes against category strategies and work in the guidance of strategic category leaders. For example, while leveraging data/facts, engaging with the category leaders to execute strategies that will reduce sourcing risks and/or deliver greater value to Abbott.
Required Qualifications
- Associate's degree
- 1-year relevant experience in sourcing/procurement
Apply Now
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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The base pay for this position is
$81,500.00 – $141,300.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Category Management
DIVISION:
ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION:
United States > Alameda : 2801 Harbor Bay Parkway
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
No
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
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